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List of Design colleges and career scope
The idea of pursuing a career in design is so exciting, friends. Just a decade earlier, the offbeat career options did not exist. Nothing was clearly outlined in terms of guidance and training modules to enable young aspirants to hone their creative skills in order to become employable in the industry. Also, there were not so many companies feeling the need to have professionally qualified designers on board.
Design success
The scenario has undergone a sea change today, with almost every industry, be it apparel, automobile, graphic, film, animation, ceramic, glass, furniture, toy and game et al, feeling the need to rope in creative honchos to make a winning difference. These full-fledged career options have grown rapidly and are lucrative for the talented pros. Now is the right time to design your big dreams.
Career choice
As a young student on the edge of making a wise career choice, OPUS feels you should be made aware of the multiple avenues of professional learning and also the scope of professional growth at the very beginning. Before you begin to explore anything, do a self-check on why design captivates you and what exactly engages you in this field. Undergoing an honest self-examination will help assess the creative sparks that make you restless and your instinct tells you that you are born to excel in this arena and not pursue anything else. After all, it is passion alone for the thing called design that will take far ahead in this domain. Better be sure than regret having made the wrong choice later.
Roadmap
You are already aware of the fact that making a choice in design will not get you easy family support like a traditional career would. It is because many parents are caught in a time warp and they feel these flimsy hobbies packaged as careers will wreck your future, never give you stability. OPUS tells them loud and clear that with institutes like NIFT and NID operating in this zone, their fears are totally unfounded. With thriving companies, both Indian and multi-national, there is no dearth of employment opportunities in India now. All you need to have is an eye for design and a creative bent of mind.
Options galore
To begin a detailed assessment of the scope of work in the field of design, let us first see the segments where you can specialise well, where your forte lies. Animation film design, furniture and interior design, product design, graphic design, transport design, IT integrated design are some of the popular options to explore in the field of design. In fashion, you have accessory design, apparel design, textile design, and fashion technology to try out, depending on where your aptitude lies. In the field of art, you have painting, interior décor, and metal craft to choose from. When it comes to architecture, you have urban design, exhibition design, set design, landscape design, and environmental architecture as the options to select from. This makes it clear that specialized study courses are available nowadays and candidates need to be aware of the growing opportunities and how to prepare to crack the entrance tests. This is where you need a mentor like OPUS.
Crack the test
With leading institutes like NID and NIFT conducting national level admission tests that examine the creative aptitude apart from the basic level of skills required like logical reasoning, quantitative aptitude, and English, you need to seek professional guidance for these entrance tests that are pretty unconventional. Otherwise, the lack of familiarity with the pattern of questions could deliver a setback even if you have oodles of talent. The problem is that it is an examination open to all and a large number of students sit for it. Therefore, the element of fierce national level competition is found here as well. It would be incorrect to think that only the creative folks with ponytails or tonsured heads enter the fray. The problem is compounded because of lack of any exposure to the pattern of questions at the school level. You need mentors who know what the design colleges across India seek in candidates and how they set their questions to test their skills.
Only those professional guides can offer brilliant insight and OPUS brings you closer to such enlightened heads. Their guidance alone can take you through the grind. Before you sit for these tests, remember one thing: you should seek proper professional guidance. Do not be overconfident that you are creative and therefore in a creative field there is no need to seek guidance. This could ruin your chances of success. Your entry should be smooth and in one single attempt. OPUS tells you not to take chances here. OPUS respects your creativity but it also likes you to realise that there are certain formats in every exam and through a well-planned preparation strategy you can achieve success in it.
List of Design Colleges in India
- National institute of design, NID, Ahmedabad, Bangalore
- IIT- Industrial design centre, Mumbai
- NIFT, 16 colleges across India including Srinagar campus
- Symbiosis institute of Design, SID, Pune
- Srishti school of art, design and Technology, Bangalore
- Maeer’s Insitute of Technology – Institute of Design, Pune
- UPES school of design studies, Dehradun
- Indian institute of art and design, Delhi,
- Indian school of design and Innovation, Mumbai
- Footwear design and development Institute, Noida
Make up your mind to design your career and the entrance test with OPUS guidance should take you where you have always aspired to be in – the special niche where you get to showcase your creativity and win laurels.
OPUS extends warm wishes to you.
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